Sam’s random musings

frequency decoder - Unobtrusive Table Sort Script:

A script that sorts table rows containing date, numeric or plain-text data and then politely re-colours alternate rows.

frequency decoder - Unobtrusive Date-Picker Widgit:

An attempt at writing a keyboard accessible, unobtrusive JavaScript date-picker.

These work work very well for me in safari, very clean and nice…

(Via .)

Techdirt: Unintentially Geeky Joke In Apple’s Share Price:

On the day Apple released their first Intel-powered computers, their share price closed at $80.86.

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funny but do you know why?

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

DHTML Showcase: iZoom in JavaScript:

Anyhow… today I ported the iZoom UI to the Web! All I’ve done is create main UI minus the actual cropping features. The example uses DHTML - XHTML/CSS/JavaScript to offer a highly-dynamic image resizing UI. Maybe I’ll actually do something with this soon.

iZoom for the web.

Works in IE 6/Win, IE 5.5/Win, IE 5.0/Win(!). Firefox/Moz/NN, Safari, Opera, OmniWeb, Camino, etc.

This is going to be coolio

(Via Ditchnet.org.)

Around the Web:

One of my new years resolutions is to remember to link to all the neat stuff related to TextMate that I see on the net. This is after all meant to be a blog all about TextMate! So here we go…

Some cool examples here, check out the testing movies

(Via MacroMates Weblog.)

Po Bronson:

“As I get older, I’ve learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.”

(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)

Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic:

As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Bill Gates’ presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind. I believe we can use many of the concepts in Zen and Zen aesthetics to help us compare their presentation visuals as well as help us improve our own visuals. My point in comparing Jobs and Gates is not to poke fun but to learn.

Actually this is a great site on thing presentation. The comparison between these two great technologists presentation style is even greater if you have ever seen them both in action. Worth the read if you ever present.

(Via NewsVine.)

Cabel’s Blog LOL:

Cabel “Panic” Sasser now has a weblog. Clever writing, clever design. Be sure to try out the JavaScript jiggery-pokery on the photo thumbnails.

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There are some cool little effects here (also check the “about” link)

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

Trick Your TextMate: The Series:

I’ve been using TextMate for some time now. However, until recently, I hadn’t been using it enough to justify really getting to know it. After a bit of time exploring the new documentation, I have to say that it might be in the running for my favorite application of all time.

I have to agree this is a great text editor and there are some great tips here for using it. Can’t wait to see what comes next.

(Via Garrett Dimon.)